Procrastination 2

It is the weekend and I have a few things to do. Not too bad so I think I'll be playing some videogames. Maybe even finish MM.


Due Tuesday:

-Ros & Guil Presentation
-UN reading
-Physics Group IV work


Due Wednesday:

-Biology Anatomy Quiz/Lab
-Chemistry M.C. Test
-Social Contemporary World Test


Due Friday:

-Physics Group IV Project


Due soon:

-English 9 charts (April 15)

Uphill Battle

No matter what, I am always screwed and can never get ahead in the game. Today I finally received my results for my social midterm but boy do I sure wish I hadn't. For some reason, I always forget to provide sufficient evidence for each idea I present in my social essays, which in turn destroys my mark. I got 76%. The class average was 80%. My essay was almost the lowest marked one. Needless to say, fuck that. My CUMULATIVE mark dropped from 92 to 89 with that stupid test. Today, I had my cold war test and got 96% on it. That barely increased my mark 1%, to be 90. It sucks ass in my position. If I do well, my mark isn't affected but if I screw up just once, my mark is raped. Sure, you might think 3% isn't much but since the marking is cumulative, each new assignment I do will have less and less impact on my mark. This means that even if I do really well thus far on, my mark may and probably will be unchanged.

I also got my chem test back today and I got a 93%. Thankfully, my mark did not change from the 97% but I have to be careful next time...Need to get more than 2 hours of sleep the day of an exam.

Today was the biggest waste of time. We did absolutely nothing important in world history, I wasted my spare on kicking myself on my social mark, I didn't get far at all on my math unit assignment (plus our teacher said we all failed our portfolio assignment), did nothing in chemistry, nothing in physics, and did well on a social test that did shitall for my forever dropping social mark.

Buses

I just got to school and I have to say, I loathe my bus routes. It's the biggest waste of time. The only way for me to get to school in the morning is to take one bus that is two blocks from my house to another stop about only 1km down the line. Then I wait there for half an hour, until my bus comes and takes me to the terminal. Then the bus driver waits at the terminal and then continues to my stop, where the walk is still a couple blocks. Overall it is an hour trip for maybe 25 minutes of actual bus riding. Also, consider that it takes 10 minutes to get to school by car. Fun fun.

Concentration

Today was an eventful day. My parents just left for Palm Springs for four days and I get the house to myself (and my brother). I had a chemistry exam that I forgot about but it seemed to be okay. I also had an indoor exhibition soccer game and did well. This brings me to the point of my title. I have to consciously take part in any physical activity I take part in (ie. anything from sports to pool). Otherwise, I am wildly inconsistent in my performance, often going from really crappy to superb back to crappy again in minutes. Today, I made the effort to tell myself to just do what I do in practises. Just trap the ball, carry it a bit, and either pass it or shoot it. And it worked! I made quite a few excellent passes and even made the winning goal, with my left foot no less.

Now I look forward to an evening of television and homework. Nothing big in the way of homework but many good shows on tonight. For example, The Office, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, Scrubs, and some other shows are on tonight. These are the only good comedies on television right now, since Arrested Development has been cancelled and both The Simpsons and Family Guy have stopped being funny (in The Simpsons' defence, they were funny for a very long time but I think it's time to move on).

Other shows I enjoy include Heroes, 24, Prison Break, and Boston Legal. I also watch Lost but I did not see the season opener yet or the last episode of Boston Legal because of homework. I'll probably watch them this weekend.

Tip: Up late and want to watch a good show? Craig Ferguson is excellent, as is the Colbert Report. The Daily Show is also something decent to watch while waiting for the Colbert Report.

Procrastination

This will be a recurring topic of mine since I do it so well and so frequently. In fact, I am doing it right now. I Have an English assignment, Social assignment, and a Chemistry test to study for. Heck, I even created this blog partially as a means to procrastinate even further. I sure do love procrastinating, it involves all of the stress of doing the work but not actually getting anything done!

Today

I accomplished plenty today. I managed to complete my two World Literature papers for my Grade 12 IB English class. These papers have been looming since November but thanks to having no school yesterday, I managed to find time to complete them. The first paper is a comparison of "A Doll's House" and "Medea" (I know I should be using underlines for these titles but I don't want to bother figuring out how to do that right now). The aspect of these works that I am comparing is honour and how Jason and Torvald pursue it. My second paper is supposed to be a creative paper. I chose to do it on "The Metamorphosis" since it is an excellent story and being creative on its own, allows for an easy transition to a creative paper. I discuss the possibility of Gregor's room itself being a character, providing its own insight into the story and having a special relationship with Gregor.

But enough of that...

I received my report card today.

My average dropped 1% but I'm fine with that since my chemistry and physics mark both increased.

Math 96 (was 98)
English 94 (was 99)
Chemistry 97 (was 95)
Social 92 (was 95)
Physics 96 (was 93)
Bio 94 (was 94)

World History 92 (was 90)
World Literature -

Core course average: 95 (was 96)

Yes, I do indeed seem to be a nerd. Oh well, I don't put too much effort into my studies so that's fine with me.